Ranjana Iyer

Category: Mindset

  • Week #48 – Moxie

    As I shared in the previous post, I listened to Tim Ferriss’s interview with Whitney Wolfe Herd, the CEO of Bumble. She mentioned that her first choice of name for … Read more

  • Week #46 and 47 – Assurance and Surrender

    Week #46 – Assurance

    I paid attention to how my internal and external reality changed when I focused on feeling assured. First of all, I felt pulled to pay attention … Read more

  • Week #40 – Integrity

    Keeping this value at the back of my mind simplifies things, for the most part, I found. How I should act in a particular scenario becomes clear because I don’t … Read more

  • Week 35 through 38 – Pronoia, Discipline, Understanding, and Alignment

    I’m writing this in the first week of November but am going to backdate it to sometime in September so that it appears in the right order on the blog. … Read more

  • Week #34 – Closure

    What a week. It was successful beyond my imagination or definition. I got closure on the subject that’d been bothering me for weeks as well as closure on a couple … Read more

  • Week #33 – Resolve

    It’s interesting how these weeks sometimes pan out. I’ve done this weekly value exploration long enough now to really allow myself to sink into a value from day #1. Of … Read more

  • Week #31 and 32 – Wellness and Trust

    Wellness

    I was unwell during the week of wellness which was ironic. I had a particularly rough PMS followed by a particularly painful period which made a lot of my … Read more

  • Week #29 – Action

    I had a successful week. Took lots of action and got a bunch of things done:

    1. Published 15 low-content books and 14 of them went live as well. I now
    … Read more

  • Week #28 – Fulfilment

    Spending time consciously thinking about what fulfills me was one of the most insightful exercises I’ve done this year. I now have a good understanding of what constitutes fulfilment for … Read more

  • Week #27 – Focus

    This was the right value to start Q3 with. Reminding myself of my quarterly goals every day helped me take action to create momentum in each of them. I set … Read more

  • Week #25 – Accountability

    The week was a success. My intention was to complete a specific, moderate-sized work project. I managed to do that a day in advance which made me feel great. What … Read more

  • Week #24 – Consistency

    I kept up my promise to myself and did the priming exercise every day. I’m going to keep this up as a part of my morning routine going forward too. … Read more

  • Week #23 – Expansion

    I attended Tony Robbins’ Unleash the Power Within event from June 3rd to 6th. My intention was to be open to any form of expansion it might bring about. The … Read more

  • Week #20: Satisfaction

    I enjoyed focusing on satisfaction this week. It was as if I was giving myself the permission to be satisfied. I naturally did more of the things that gave me … Read more

  • Week #15 and #16 – Openheartedness and Ease

    I’m combining the updates for weeks #15 and #16.

    Week #15 was about openheartedness. It was a really heart-centered week given the value in focus. What I particularly liked about … Read more

  • Week #9: Experimentation

    I picked the right value for the week. There were a lot of firsts for me which I found easy to embrace thanks to the lens of experimentation. Here are … Read more

  • Week #8: Compassion

    This particular value truly changed the way I related to myself and others. Every morning, I would journal for a bit and clarify how I could show compassion to myself … Read more

  • How to avoid having split energy

    Have you heard of the phrase, “If you chase after two rabbits, you will catch none?”. When you chase after two things at the same time, you have split energy … Read more

  • Lessons from Selling Sunset

    My friend Dimi got me started on watching Selling Sunset which is a Netflix reality show about real estate agents working for the Oppenheim Group in Los Angles. Apart from … Read more

  • Everything is in your head

    I was talking to my dear friend and coach Dimi yesterday. I remarked on how I’d exercised my courage plenty of times over the last couple of weeks and none … Read more

  • The best investment you can make

    “I am the best investment I can make”, I thought. I had just finished making a payment of $2000 for the membership to an online community around personal growth … Read more

  • The permission to obsess

    Every time I’ve had a major breakthrough in my life or met with massive success was when I obsessed over something. Whenever I allow myself to go deep into something … Read more

  • Your Music and People – by Derek Sivers

    My notes

    I first heard about Derek Sivers on Tim Ferriss’s podcast. It was one of the best interviews I’d … Read more

  • The Pact

    If you’ve read my recent blog posts, you’ll know that I’ve been doing a 7-day ‘follow the joy’ exploration. As I went with the flow day after day, I found … Read more